Cânticos 4
Cyril of Alexandria · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Cânticos 4:8
This teaches us the bride's place of origin, that she comes from the worship of idols. For Mount Lebanon is full of idols, whence you come, it says, hastening past through the law. Without knowing the law, you were taught the mystery of Christ. — FRAGMENTS IN THE COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS 4:8
Cânticos 4:9
Truly you inflamed us with desire for you by one word of confession, which you rightly possessed, seeing with your interior eyes. For you made a confession by your necklace. These things were said to the bride by friends of the bridegroom, that is, by angelic powers. For, since the power of the visual faculty is twofold, one sees the truth and another wanders astray after vanity. Because the pure eye of the bride is opened only toward the nature of the good but the other is idle, therefore the friends give praise only to one eye, calling her "sister" on account of their kinship with respect to freedom from passion but calling her "bride" on account of her marriage to the Word. Because he says that your eye is one, therefore, insofar as it beholds one thing, likewise is your soul one, insofar as it is not divided into many dispositions. And your necklace is perfect, given that you imposed the divine yoke upon yourself, for this necklace is surely the yoke of the Lord. For this reason, we confess that you created a heart for us by your wondrous dowry, which is to say that our souls and minds were brought to the contemplation of the light through you. For in you we contemplate the sun of justice as though in a mirror. — FRAGMENTS IN THE COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS 4:9
Cânticos 4:12
[This garden] is closed to the world but opened to the heavenly bridegroom. And the fountain where we are anointed after baptism was sealed by the Holy Spirit. — FRAGMENTS IN THE COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS 4:12
Cânticos 4:15
Virtues are signified by the perfumes and the trees of Lebanon are the prophets. Myrrh and aloes, finally, demonstrate that the buried Christ communed with the saints who preceded him, for, descending to hades, he led them out. — FRAGMENTS IN THE COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS 4:15